General Information

Faculty of Philosophy works from the very foundation of Moscow University in 1755. It has always been a centre of progressive philosophical ideas in Russia. The outstanding Russian philosophers, such as A.I.Vvedensky, M.M.Troyitsky, V.S.Soloviev, delivered lectures at the Faculty. The best traditions of Russian Philosophy are being preserved by professors and associate professors of the Faculty and became the basis of tuition of philosophers nowadays.

The branch of the Marxist Philosophy that suppressed all other philosophical theories during the soviet period went into the past. At present all modern and classic philosophical ideas are open for studying and discussion.

To ensure close connections with advanced scientific thoughts all opportunities are used to draw the best scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences to work with the Faculty. Foreign professors from the world leading universities regularly lecture at the Faculty.

Departments

Logic

Theoretical Philosophy

Social Philosophy

Philosophy and Methodology of Science

Ethics

Aesthetics

History of Russian Philosophy

History of Foreign Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

History and Theory of Culture

Philosophical Anthropology

Political Science

Political Processes in Russia

World Political Process

History of Political Thought

Laboratories

Political Analysis and Forecasting

Information Systems in Humanitarian Education

Bachelour and Master Degrees

5 years full time

Directions

Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

Political Science

General and Special Courses

Philosophy

Aristotle’s Ethics

Ethics of I.Kant

Ethics of Leo Tolstoy

Medieval Arab Ethics

Modern Western Ethics

Philosophical Ethics in Russia

Morality and Personality

Ethics and Philosophy of Law

Problems of the Sense of Life

Normative Ethics

Ethics and Religion

Art and World Religions

Aesthetics of Bakhtin in Cultural Context

Aesthetics of Postmodernism

Aesthetics of Dostoevsky

Quantitative Studies in Aesthetics

Reflection in Culture and in the Aesthetics of and Artist

National Traits of the Art: History, Theory and Contemporary Problems

History of Russian and Foreign Art

Art in Spiritual Culture

Aesthetics as the Knowledge of Being

History of Oriental Philosophy Ancient Philosophy

History of Classical Philosophy

Classical German Idealism

Kant’s Theory of Cognition

Analytical Philosophy

Problems of Philosophy of Language

Contemporary Trends of American Philosophy

Modern Marxism

Structuralism

Historiography of Russian Philosophy

Medieval Russian Philosophy

Philosophy of Russian Enlightenment

Philosophy of Slavophilism

Philosophy of Russian Radicalism

Positivism in Russia in the 19th Century

Philosophy of Vl.Soloviev

Dostoevsky as a Philosopher

Existentialist Philosophy in Russia

Russian Cosmism

Philosophy of A.A.Bogdanov

Russian Philosophy of the Soviet & Post-Soviet Time

Contemporary Foreign Concepts of History of Russian Philosophy

Culture and the Way of Life of Russian Society in 18th – 19th Centuries

Reading Plato’s Dialogues

Philosophy of Medieval Christian Culture

Epistemology of Russian Philosophy of the 19th – 20th Centuries

Western European Culture of Art in 14th – 18th Centuries

Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Science

Problems of Bioethics

Rationality and the Man

Man in the Culture (Book-Learning of the Early Middle Ages)

From the Philosophy of Nature to the Philosophy of Man

Problems of Social Metaphysics

History of Anthropological Ideas in Western European Philosophy

Main Problems of the Humanities

Historical Typology of the Social Knowledge

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

Relations of the State and the Church in Russian History

Evolution of Religion in the World

Liberty of Conscience

Dialogue of Religious and Non-religious World-outlooks

Dogmatic Texts

Religious Ontology and Metaphysics

Christian Historiosophy Buddhism. Buddhist Philosophy

Islam. Moslem Philosophy and Theology

Catholic Philosophy and Theology

Protestant Philosophy and Theology

Orthodox Philosophy and Theology

Non-confessional Syncretic Philosophy

Religions of the East

Semiotics

Political Science

Political Philosophy

Theory of Politics

Methods of Teaching Political Science

Processes of Modernization

Systems of Administration and Governance

Philosophy of State and Law

The Main Political Ideologies: Critical Analysis

Theory of Decision-Making

Theory and Practice of Lobbism

Elites and Politics

Types of Political Culture

Political Leadership

Political History of Russia

Contemporary Russian Political Process

Practical Political Science

Social and Political Aspects of Economic Reforms in Russia

Authoritarianism in Russian: Tradition and Contemporaniety

Problems of the Formation of Multiparty System in Russia

Political Mobilization in Russia

Russian Idea: Political Aspect

Property and Power in Russia

Contemporary Ideological and Political Trends in Russia

National Interests of Russia

Social and Political Conflicts in Russia: Strategies of Resolution

Regional Political Movements and Elites in Russia

Methods of Political Analysis

Methods of Political Research

Mass Media in Politics

International Relations Theory

Theory of the World Political Process

History of the World Political Process

Regional Political Institutions and Processes

Comparative Politics

Philosophy of Modernization

History of Political Parties and Social Movements

Actors of World Politics

Global Governance and Institutions

World Economy and World Politics

Ethnopolitical Processes in Contemporary World

Geopolitics

National Strategy and National Will

Leadership in World Politics

The Nature of the World Political Conflict

War and Peace in World Politics

History of Political Thought

Methods of Studying History of Political Thought

State and Individual in Medieval Political Thought

Main Trends of Political Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the XIX Century

Political Philosophy

Contemporary American Political Philosophy

Master Degree

2 years full time

Directions

Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

Political Science

Students are offered to take a number of general and special courses accordance with chosen specialisation.

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